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Joint Statement of UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon and UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander

We deplore the death of civilians - young children and teenagers - in Majdal Shams. Civilians must be protected at all times.

We urge the parties to exercise maximum restraint and to put a stop to the ongoing intensified exchanges of fire. It could ignite a wider conflagration that would engulf the entire region in a catastrophe beyond belief.

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